Re: [Bobs-devel] Backup frequency

[Rene R. <re...@gr...>]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 20:11, James W. Beauchamp wrote:
> Hi all:
> I have a question concerning how frequently BOBS can run a backup.  Is 
> there anything wrong with me moving the backup.php file from the 
> crond.d/backup.daily to backup.hourly?  I'm looking to get more frequent 
> backups to some files other than just daily.
> 
> Any thoughts on pitfalls this may cause?
/
It shouldn't cause problems if your backups can be done in less than an
hour. If it takes longer then the command queue would just grow and
grow. 
It may impact on the interactive performance of the bobs user interface.
This will not give you multiple backups of the same file on any given
day. It will be backed up several times a day (if modified that
frequently) and stored in "incremental" backups as eg.
"somefile.ext.2004035".
Bobs finest level of time awareness is one day. This is due to tagging
the files with and extension which is like this:
filename + "year" + "day of year"
which looks like: "filename.2004035"

I hope this answers your question.

Cheers
Rene